• Newly planted trough, photograph by Maggie Bucknall, The Week That Was, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    The Week That Was: 19th – 23rd November

    Go behind the scenes, meet the team and get some great tips for your own garden at home. Join us as we look back at the week that was… Monday 19th We began the week by chopping back giant rhubarb (Gunnera manicata) plants around our pond in the Woodland Walk. Each autumn, as the leaves…

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  • Gunnera manicata and the Japanese Bridge, The Tempest, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    The Tempest

    On the 29th June we welcome back the Lord Chamberlain’s Men for another spellbinding outdoor performance. This time, it’s the ‘The Tempest’ in which the vengeful Prospero conjures a magical storm in order to thwart his jealous brother. So, in honour of one of Shakespeare’s most popular plays, we’ve asked the Garden Team to pick…

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  • Ground frost, Now and Then: November, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Now and Then: November

    When Margaret Nettlefold planned the garden at Winterbourne, daughter Valerie revealed that her mother ‘lived with gardening books for a year or so’. Here, the influence of Gertrude Jekyll is inescapable. Winterbourne is filled with Jekyllian detail inspired by her 1899 classic Wood and Garden. Each month, we follow in Margaret’s footsteps to see how the…

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  • Gunnera manicata, photograph by Chris Rigby, film photography, Winterbourne House and Garden, Digging for Dirt
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    Snapshot: Chris Rigby

    Chris Rigby is a Birmingham-based fine art photographer with a passion for Winterbourne. He has recently begun using a vintage analogue alongside his usual digital cameras and the gardens have provided no shortage of inspiration. Below, Chris shares some of the resulting images and tells us why experimenting with film will make you a better…

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    Snapshot: Snow

    The first half of January was drier than average until, on Friday 13th, the first of this winter’s snow finally arrived. It wasn’t much but that didn’t stop us dashing out to get some photographs of the garden sprinkled with the white stuff. Don’t forget to let us know which is your favourite shot… There’s…

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